Socio-economic status and 1 year mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure in China.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study explored the association between socio-economic status (SES) and mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) in China.

Methods and results

We used data from the China Patient-centred Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events-Prospective Heart Failure Study (China PEACE 5p-HF Study), which enrolled patients hospitalized primarily for HF from 52 hospitals between 2016 and 2018. SES was measured using the income, employment status, educational attainment, and partner status. Individual socio-economic risk factor (SERF) scores were assigned based on the number of coexisting SERFs, including low income, unemployed status, low education, and unpartnered status. We assessed the effects of SES on 1 year all-cause mortality using Cox models. We used the

SUBMITTER: Ge Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8934978 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature